Forests/biodiversity Preservation Initiatives

  As one initiative that embodies protecting and preserving forests and biodiversity as stated in our corporate social responsibility and environmental policies, the Yamaha Group sponsors tree-planting activities both in Japan and around the world.

•  Yamaha Corporation Group CSR Policy
•  Yamaha Group Environmental Policy

Yamaha Corporation and Six Local Indonesian Subsidiaries^*1

  Yamaha Corporation and six local Indonesian subsidiaries carried out Phase I of the Yamaha Forest (tree-planting activities in Indonesia) between fiscal years 2005 and 2009. Phase II of the Yamaha Forest is a five-year tree-planting program in Indonesia running from fiscal 2010 through fiscal 2014.

  Indonesia is a treasure trove of diverse world species. In recent years, however, that bounty of biodiversity has been in rapid decline. Phase I of the Yamaha Forest project involved planting of approximately 110,000 saplings over approximately 126 hectares of public land in Sukabumi, West Java, in efforts to restore the functionality of the forest. These activities have also been effective in educating local Yamaha subsidiary employees, elementary, and middle-school students in environmental issues.

  The selection of tree species (based on academic surveys) and planting schedules for Phase II are designed to renew the natural forest in harmony with local characteristics, as well as to help the ecosystem recover. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry are working in cooperation with Yamaha to work in an area devastated by fire (approximately 50 hectares) in the Mt. Ciremai National Park, located in Kuningan, West Java.

  In December 2010, we held a kick-off event at the activity site. Nearly 230 people attended, representing Yamaha Corporation, local Yamaha subsidiaries, the Indonesian government, the local community and local students. To commemorate the start of Phase II, one tree was planted for each person in attendance. Yamaha plans to plant approximately 50,000 trees through March 2015 in a number of local varieties that have been selected based on the ecological survey.

• *1 Yamaha Indonesia, Yamaha Music Manufacturing Indonesia, Yamaha Music Indonesia (Distributor), Yamaha Music Manufacturing Asia, Yamaha Musical Products Indonesia, Yamaha Electronics Manufacturing Indonesia

Yamaha Corporation

  As one part of our environmental preservation activities, Yamaha Corporation signed on as a “Shizuoka Forests of the Future Supporter” with Shizuoka Prefecture and Hamamatsu City in March 2007. Based on this agreement, Yamaha has agreed to support a five-year recovery plan for the Enshunada coastal forest, which has been severely damaged by wood-boring ambrosia beetles.

  In October 2010, approximately 150 Yamaha Group employees, family members, local volunteers and others participated in a fourth year of tree-planting activities. The group planted a total of 155 trees representing six local species, including Ubame Oak, Camphor, and Japanese hackberry.

  At the end of the activity, Hamamatsu City employees conducted educational lectures on the shaping of the ecology through the segregation of organisms and the activity of the insects that caused the mass oak mortality^*2. The participants learned the importance of tree planting and preserving the ecology.

• *2 Large-scale limb damage in the oak forest, caused by fungus that is transported by the ambrosia beetle